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  1. Jan 2025
    1. this represents every point on the graph

      Good idea! You could even point out a commit dot then zoom in to see the loop to drive the point home.

    2. iteratively building the graph over a sequence of slides

      💯 this! Start by showing main only. Add a couple of commits, roll back, etc.

      Once folks are comfortable with that, introduce a branch, show commits, a merge, talk about how git decides what to keep and when it throws up its hands and needs the humans to reconcile the changes.

    3. What level of complexity and usefulness do researchers etc. actually need to use git effectively?

      This is a key question that will drive the rest of it, I think. git was built by and for professional programmers. Even as one, it took a while for git to click for me. Even a decade after I started using git extensively, I stick to simplified workflows unless I really need to do something more complex. Is working on main sufficient for researchers or is there a need to work on branches? That’s just one example, but keeping it as simple as possible can be a productive place to be!

  2. Aug 2021
  3. Jul 2021
    1. the content in between these tags are important headers of a specific web page

      I found this a little hard to follow. Consider revising to something like the following:

      "the content in between these tags are related to specific sections of the page"

  4. Apr 2019
    1. Retrospectives shouldn't be static and they should serve each team holding them. Ultimately, they should serve our customers by making our teams happier. If your team has been using any of these techniques or others not mentioned that you'd like to share please do!

      Might be worth adding a short concluding paragraph or, if this is it, setting it apart from the previous question's answer.

      Something to sum up the benefits of retros and maybe offering your time if anyone wants help getting started with them?

    2. our Actionables

      This might be confusing to people because it's the first time it's been referenced. Considering saying instead something like "the Actionables column on our retro board".

    3. It’s not about any framework or methodology; it’s about people.

      This is interesting and left me wanting to hear more about this perspective. Consider adding a sentence to expand on how it's about people.

  5. Mar 2019
  6. Jun 2018
    1. As recently as the late 1960s, the government was forgiving roughly three-fourths of print publications’ periodical mailing expenses, at a cost of about $400 million annually (or, adjusted for inflation, about $2 billion today). Much of that disappeared with the Postal Reorganization Act of 1970 and in subsequent cutbacks. But the Post Office still discounts the postage cost of periodicals by about $270 million a year.

      This sounds like the postal subsidies have been scaled back, but some percentage of this decline can be explained by a decline in print circulation as well.

  7. Mar 2018
  8. Feb 2018
    1. Purchase of Domain: ahedg.es

      I originally bought this domain from a registrar that deals with ".es" TLDs. That registrar failed to let me know it was expiring, so it was bought by this German company. I had to haggle with them to get it back. Total hassle.

  9. biopub.hypothes.is biopub.hypothes.is
  10. Sep 2017
  11. Aug 2017
  12. Jul 2017
    1. In an ideal world, social enterprises would receive funding and attract resources only when they produced their intended social impact

      Wait, they should receive funding only after they’ve achieved their mission?

    1. Pushing people to go faster without mature efforts to identify and address what’s slowing them down will usually grind them to a halt (or burn them out) before too long.

      🔑 point

  13. Apr 2017
  14. Mar 2017
    1. The Microbe is so very smallYou cannot make him out at all,But many sanguine people hopeTo see him through a microscopeFrom The Microbe by Hilaire Belloc, 1900

      How cute!

    2. the scientific name, but often that is not the case. For example, it is not at all obvious that Xenopsylla cheopis is the rat flea that carries the plague microbe

      science schmience

    1. they might still be able and willing to look up the historical stock price for you.

      This is not at all hard to do, but I suppose if you can get someone else to do it, great!

    2. If you purchased the stock at different times, or haven't sold all the shares at once, you may have more than one trade confirmation statement.

      This can get complicated fast.

  15. Feb 2017
    1. family breakdown

      Humans are pretty resilient. There is no good reason why the nuclear family is the only model that can work in a modern society.

    2. That works out to one of every eight adult males in America today.

      Yep, this is an incredibly disturbing trend and a huge problem, especially considering the discrimination faced by people with prison records. And, yet, nowhere does the author mention the racial bias that underlies this statistic, the way that (especially, but not exclusively) drug laws are used as a new Jim Crow, a way to control and extract labor from primarily Black and Latino men. Why would he not tie this back to the social forces that created the situation?

    3. According to his work, nearly half of all prime working-age male labor-force dropouts—an army now totaling roughly 7 million men—currently take pain medication on a daily basis.

      Seems reasonable. If you're of "prime working-age" and a labor-force dropout, there's a good chance it's because you've suffered from a debilitating injury. Maybe you subsequently got addicted, but that would be some slice of the 7 million man "army" he cites.

    4. disadvantaged minority communities to Main Street White America.

      What about well-off minorities and poor white people? I call this out because the author is exposing his biases by reinforcing the narrative that minorities are by definition disadvantaged and white people make up Main Street. Another example of his intellectual laziness.

    5. but they rose sharply for those with high-school degrees or less, and for this less-educated grouping most of the rise in death rates was accounted for by suicides, chronic liver cirrhosis, and poisonings (including drug overdoses).

      This is shocking and sad and not terribly surprising, unfortunately, considering the weakening economic prospects for this group. That the author goes on later to essentially blame this on Medicaid is despicable, in my opinion.

    6. despite the trillions we devote to medical services each year.

      I would argue it is precisely because of the trillions we devote to medical services each year. For-profit health care is a terrible model for increasing health outcomes. It may drive a certain amount of innovation, but usually only at the high end. Basic preventative medical care is a bargain by comparison and it would be a net benefit to society for this to be paid for by the people's taxes.

    7. many things in our society are going wrong and yet seem beyond our powers to correct.

      The fact that problems in our society "seem beyond our powers to correct" is directly related to the major trend that the author has largely chosen to ignore: that an incredibly large percentage of our wealth is concentrated in the hands of a very few people. These people have chosen to use their means to influence the political process to the point where it is only responsive to them. Get money out of politics and you will make government responsive to the will of the "real" Americans the author so loves to deify.

    8. paid hours of work per adult civilian have plummeted by a shocking 12 percent thus far in our new American century.

      Shocking? Maybe. But some percentage of this may be due to the "gig" economy. I.e. increasing numbers of people deliberately (or sometimes not) choose project-based work over the standard 40+ hour work week. Freelancers have more control over their schedules, but also much more economic insecurity in many cases.

    9. 21st–century America has somehow managed to produce markedly more wealth for its wealthholders even as it provided markedly less work for its workers.

      Great, a nod to the real problem, but no investigation of the causes or implications. Why not?

    10. To put things another way: If our nation’s work rate today were back up to its start-of-the-century highs, well over 10 million more Americans would currently have paying jobs.

      How many of those potential jobs were lost to automation?

    11. The reasons for America’s newly fitful and halting macroeconomic performance are still a puzzlement to economists and a subject of considerable contention and debate.1Economists are generally in consensus, however, in one area: They have begun redefining the growth potential of the U.S. economy downwards.

      This reminds me of climate denial. "Though there is considerable debate about the causes, there is no denying that temperatures are rising." I doubt there is an honest economist who would dispute that hoarding of wealth by the few would harm the many. We are in a situation where this is happening on an unprecedented scale. I would love to hear from someone more versed in the numbers to know whether that accumulation could account for the decrease in U.S. economic growth potential.

    12. The warning lights have been flashing, and the klaxons sounding, for more than a decade and a half. But our pundits and prognosticators and professors and policymakers, ensconced as they generally are deep within the bubble, were for the most part too distant from the distress of the general population to see or hear it.

      I take perhaps a more cynical view that all of these bubble-dwellers (as the author would have us believe) have known all along these were the trends, but chose to ignore, downplay, or only take token action to address them to enrich or protect their personal wealth and privilege.

    13. So general economic conditions for many ordinary Americans—not least of these, Americans who did not fit within the academy’s designated victim classes—have been rather more insecure than those within the comfort of the bubble understood.

      Speaking of "designated victim classes" and "bubbles" is lazy writing and not particularly helpful at best and coded racism at worst. Later, the author talks about people who live in the bubble versus "real America". Seriously condescending, as if people who live in large, multi-cultural cities, who may also have a somewhat intellectual bent are not real Americans.

    14. bicoastal bastions

      Here we go again. In fact, Trump won among rural voters, even on the coasts, and Clinton won among urban voters, even in the center of the country. This should be an interesting read if the author is going to be so obviously lazy in his formulations in the opening paragraph.

    15. The abstraction of “inequality” doesn’t matter a lot to ordinary Americans. The reality of economic insecurity does.

      The problem with this is that economic insecurity stems largely from income inequality. In other words, the fact that a tiny percentage of people have accumulated almost all of the economic gains over the last 15 years means that millions more Americans live under increasingly precarious conditions.